Ahmadinejad has a very small actual support; the rest is propaganda.

This seems unlikely.  Even if he lost in reality, I doubt he was plowed under.  He seems pretty popular with the lower classes, and it's not like 100% of people in cities hated him.

So far there's no actual proof of election fraud, it just seems likely and not in any way a guaranteed fact.

This isn't the same as Venezuela.  The government is claiming the urban, liberal candidate lost by a landslide even in places where he was expected to win.

yes, but the reason the media is so focused on iran's maybe-corrupt elections is iran's popularity as a boogeyman. there are many other third-world nations with *clearly* fixed elections, i mean 100% proof, evidence that is clear-cut, and the media never reports on those. so i see this focus on iran as media-driven. why not focus on all the other stolen elections too? why not turkmenistan's for instance? kazakhstan? uzbekistan? cambodia? chad? etc. etc.

I don't disagree.  Iran is very frustrating to the US because there's clearly a lot of very liberal-seeming people there and it doesn't mesh with the hardline religious government.  It's also a thorn in our side because the whole situation is mostly due to people rebelling against a really oppressive monarchical regime that we basically installed.  So really it's both the confusion and the butthurt from a horrible project gone wrong.

Also nukes & oil.

wait, i had the numbers wrong, i was looking at #3 and #4. the turn out was pretty high, 38 million votes total out of 65 million people. i think there should be some neutral party that does an investigation, since cheating on votes is endemic in the world (even in developed countries) but i don't think we should conclude anything yet or go off on a wild goose chase to "support" the iranian people etc. etc.

This is sensible, although I think the support they need now is just to get that investigation.  And again, this wouldn't be a problem if they had a more transparent media society and electoral process (exit polls, etc.).

EDIT: I should add that, again, for historical reasons we honestly shouldn't do anything other than provide moral support.  Iranians have lots of good reasons to keep the US out of their politics.

Regardless, I don't think that there is any solid proof that would warrant an investigation.

If you had solid proof, you wouldn't need an investigation.  That's kind of what investigations are for.

i'm still not very convinced by the evidence that it was rigged -- there's more than the evidence than, say, bush's first election was rigged, but it's not enough that it goes into "beyond a shadow of a doubt" territory. besides there are obvious reasons why some on the US would want to support the candidate who is more pro-US and make it look like the pro-US candidate is such a great guy but he's being put down by the anti-US candidate.

p.s. i'm half-iranian; my mother was born there

If Ahmadinejad had won by a smaller margin I wouldn't have thought anything, but he won by an enormous margin, and supposedly in places he was very unpopular in.  As someone said, it's no smoking gun, but there's also just no reason they shouldn't have a more transparent electoral process anyways, so they might as well explain how they came to that result.

I was considering checking this out. I did love Quantum Leap back in the day lol. The one thing that really turned me off of Enterprise was that damn theme song. Where the hell did the orchestra go? Star Trek needs an orchestra period. I'll still check it out though, if it is as good at the end as you say it is.

I only want to see the Mirror, Mirror related stuff.  It sounds like it hooks into both that and classic Trek really well.  I'm not a TNG-and-after fan, so I was hoping for more stuff like the original series, but the first season of Enterprise was god damn stupid.  I hear it got better, but the time-travel stuff which was apparently a big part of it isn't my cup of tea, really.

Do we have hard evidence about the iranian elections being rigged or are we just blindly echoing another case of "Iran being the devil" from the "western medias". Those medias and interest groups who love to spread freedom when it comes to some particular countries and not others. I'm just asking.
Also : the other guys looks like an angel now that he is fighting a antagonist of the EU/USA/x powergame but as soon as he is elected he is going to act like a typical iranian guy right?
Also: lots of oil reserves.

The guy lost by an extremely unlikely margin.  He's immensely popular in cities, yet somehow got beat pretty badly there, and he even lost in his hometown where he's extremely popular.  So the evidence is there.

iranians need you to troll twitter

This sounds like a job you were made for, Joe.

Not super old, but a lot of shows that were on Toonami. Especially Megas XLR. That was the perfect show for me. And IGPX, various anime shows (Yu Yu Hakasho please!).

They should at least release Megas XLR on DVD.  God damn did I love that show.

Ugh, when I heard the news about Ahmadinejad I was worried the election was rigged; it seems my fears came true. Hopefully more Americans will begin to care about this crisis, especially after what our country as a whole has done.

Although on a roundabout note, I could totally understand why an Iranian might not be interested in US help with their governmental problems.

here we go I found it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYQhvW-tjNM

The reloading scene had me cracking up.

The board is only 8x8, as opposed to 12x12.  It has the basic pieces from Diabolika 1, but adds the special Cultist piece from Diabolika 2 as a regular piece.  You can now detonate your bombs at any time (previous versions of the game had detonators that you were forced to use every few rounds).  The scoring is also different and there's a new type of demon.

It's not vastly different, but I think Diabolika iPhone is a much tighter experience overall... it's also on a platform that suits it a lot better!

I remember not liking the original that much and I bet it's because the forced detonation times and the large play area meant I died a lot before I even got the hang of it.  692700 pts./Round 340 on my 3rd try on this, though.  Maybe I like it a lot because it's easier.

Uhh yeah I'm pretty sure they made a ghost in the shell HL2 mod with balls! Holy crap this thing looks awesome. Check out the preview by one of the planet half-life guys:

http://planethalflife.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Previews.Detail&id=83l

I remember hearing about this mod a few years ago, but I thought it just sort of got lost. I think part of what makes it different than TF2 or Counter-Strike is the heavy use of Rainbow Six style strategy mixed with heavy action. From the review and the tech details, it sounds like the 3 classes are pretty simple, light, medium, and heavy, but the cloaking stuff makes it really interesting. Also I'm a huge ghost in the shell fan so I will definitely be playing this a few times even if it sucks. I still play my copy of Shogo for the awesome robotech missiles.

Shogo may have the worst character models ever for the on-foot guys, but god damn did I love that game.  It was the first "giant robots" game in a long time that felt like the Japanese cartoons rather than all slow and lumbering.

All I have to say is I am moving as soon as possible.

Bad timing.  We're going to blow up the moon.

It was an explanation of how the BNP came to win seats on the European Parliament, anyway.

That was going to be my example for the "fear (be concerned about) your neighbor" thing up above, but I didn't wanna type it up.

Mostly it looks like something out of Ghost in the Shell, yay! Which actually was one of their inspiration.

They had a Fuchikoma thing in the background in one screenshot, too.

We should all take a leaf out of moi's book.

I'm taking a whole chapter.

What's with all the fear? Don't be afraid of things, just be concerned.

No need for a big semantic argument.

I'd say fearing your neighbor is a very appropriate part of fearing your government in a republic.  You know, based on how the whole "voting" thing works.

I also use SMF and recommend it. phpBB is good too but tends to work slower for me, and feels more clunky and old-fashioned.

It also has more well known security holes, although they all do and SMF has to be kept up-to-date just like everything else.

I have read a lot of comments in various places that smf is not as fullfeatured as phpbb. 

Having used and administered both, I have to say...What?